DK Serves Up A Diverse Sampling for the Webbys
After a couple hardcore months of production, Digital Kitchen has just delivered a hefty and diverse package of content for this year’s Webby Awards Gala (June 9-10 in NYC). Presented on a 28×15 ft screen, these 27 films cover a wide range of styles from Live-Action, Animation, Information Graphics and a lot in-between.
As the Webby Awards’ Officical Film Production Partner, they spent April and May producing these pieces. They opened up the project to all of their studios (New York, LA, Seattle and Chicago) as well as many of their regular, talented collaborators. They also starred in many of them.
My personal favorites are the Gala Open (Directors Cut), directed by Rob Chiu, the Film and Video Open, directed by Bryce Wymer and Comedy Long Form, but I think there’s something in there satisfy anyone’s sensibilities.
The Webby Film and Video Awards Opening Film:
Bryce Wymer
Lloyd Alvarez
Jacques Broquard
Ylli Orana
Andreas Berner
Abbe Daniel
Wicked Music
Chris Caiati (DP)
The Webby Gala Opening Film:
Rob Chiu
Rama Allen
Hecq
Gene Park
Frank Donnangelo
Anthony Vitagliano
Nick Campbell
Jason Esser
Peter Kallstrom
Mike Alfini
Erica Rangel
Abbe Daniel
Andrea Biderman
Kenji Yamashita
Julie Rutigliano
Chris Caiati (DP)
Category IDs:
Animation: Wil Frohn, Tim Howe
Best Editing: Shawn Fedorchuk
Best Sound Design: Greg Herman, Rama Allen
Best Use of Animation / Motion Graphics: Huy Dang
Best Writing: Slavka Kolbel
Comedy: Individual Short or Episode: Will Frohn
Comedy: Long Form or Series: Jeff Long, Andrew Maggio
Documentary: Individual Episode: Dave Skaff, Tim Malieckal, Greg Herman
Documentary: Series: Dave Skaff, Tim Malieckal, Greg Herman
Drama: Individual Episode: Ben Grube, Colin Travers
Drama: Series: Kenji Yamashita, Colin Travers
Events & Live Broadcasts : Mike Campobasso, Mike Alfini, Peter Kallstrom
Experimental: Brian Bowman, Rod Lamborn
How To and DIY: John Foreman
Music: Nick Campbell
News & Politics: Individual Episode: Gene Park
News & Politics: Series: Frank Donnangelo
Public Service & Activism: Eric Anderson
Reality: Jeff Long, Andrew Maggio
Sports: Tim Howe
Student: Erica Rangel
Technology: Greg Herman
Travel: Brian Bowman
Variety: Chris Palazzo
Viral: Jayne Vidheecharoen
IDs Produced by Andrea Biderman, Abbe Daniel, Erica Rangel, Chezik Walker.
Daniel Freedman at Wicked Music worked with Rama Allen to create the vast majority of original music for all of the show content.
Tuesday, June 10th 2008 at 1:01 pm |
lame.
Tuesday, June 10th 2008 at 2:52 pm |
Nice comment, very constructive criticism.
Tuesday, June 10th 2008 at 1:16 pm |
Impressive amount of work.
Really enjoyed Huy Dang’s Animation/Motion Graphics, Chris Palazzo’s piece for Variety, Nick Campbell’s work on Music, and Ben Grube and Colin Traver’s work on Drama: Individual Episode.
My only thought is that there could have been a little better quality control on some of the pieces, and stronger art direction on the package as a whole.
Tuesday, June 10th 2008 at 10:17 pm |
I think is trying too hard to be cool.
You need a original idea to do that. I have seen it way too many times. Maybe 5 years ago with better executions.
Wednesday, June 11th 2008 at 10:28 am |
the use of good grammar would help your criticism greatly moco
Wednesday, June 11th 2008 at 8:49 pm |
good idea..
Thursday, June 12th 2008 at 8:48 am |
Thanks everyone for taking a peek and the time to comment.
Moco - sorry you didn’t dig it more, but c’est la vie.
The entire package was intended to be all over the map in terms of style and production value, much like user-generated content on the web. So we really didn’t want to put this project on a short leash and bring the work into one complete, coherent range.
- Dave Skaff (skaff@d-kitchen.com)
Saturday, June 21st 2008 at 9:11 pm |
Found the video link via and that motion piece is just awesome in my opinion.
I’m a great fan of Rob Chiu, I think his work is amazing and this video was evidently his, the look of the photos and film material, the tracking, the colors and especially the signature soundtrack (by hecq i presume) - fantastic. Reminded me a little of the “Things fall apart”-piece for obvious reasons.
Saturday, June 21st 2008 at 9:16 pm |
Meh, link bugged up, get a edit function
Was supposed to say “Found the video link via
Reform Revolution“